China Opened: Or, a Display of the Topography, History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion, Jurisprudence, etc. of the Chinese Empire

di Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (Autore)

Andrew Reed (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2015

Remarkable yet controversial, the Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (1803-51) sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on translating the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and Gutzlaff later focused his evangelising efforts there, learning several dialects and distributing translated literature. Furthermore, he served as an interpreter for the East India Company. Also reissued in this series are his Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China (1834) and A Sketch of Chinese History (1834). Edited down into two substantial volumes by the Congregational minister Andrew Reed (1787-1862), the present work was published in 1838. It aimed to generate support for the missionary cause by giving Anglophone readers deeper insight into an unfamiliar civilisation. Volume 2 addresses arts and sciences, religion, and government at all levels.

• Autore: Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff
• Curatore: Andrew Reed
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 582 p.
• Dimensioni: 218 x 140 mm
• Peso: 700 gr.
• EAN: 9781108079440

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